Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...special Jeep fitted with a hand rail, Johnson and Westmoreland reviewed the troops, then proceeded to a flat-bed truck draped with blue-and-white bunting and fitted out as a speakers' stand. On the stand were Ky, Thieu and Lodge, who had arrived earlier. Before he began to speak, Johnson handed out three Distinguished Service Crosses, a Navy Cross (the nation's second highest decorations, after the Medal of Honor) and a Silver Star to five...
Midwestern truck farmers and the Selective Service System will ultimately determine Harvard's future board rates...
Bearhugs & Namesakes. Meeting in the small Peruvian border town of Puerto Patria, Barrientos and Belaúnde greeted each other with bear-hug abrazos, and made a few speeches. The party of 55 traveled on by barge, truck, foot and air, making up the trip as they went. Aboard his DC-6, Belaúnde manned the public-address system, describing the dense, steaming jungle below and every twist and turn of the marginal road. "That's the Tambo River," Belaúnde noted, "where I came down the rapids in a raft." Over there was Tingo Maria...
...when women washed their own hair, when a lady used glycerine, rose water and talcum powder in moderation, when the vilest words that could be hissed were "She paints." Petite (5 ft. 2½ in.), fluttery, auburn-haired Florence Nightingale Graham was only the daughter of an immigrant Ontario truck farmer, but she intended to be a lady. Borrowing 1) a name from two genteel Victorian books (Elizabeth and Her German Garden and Enoch Arden), 2) the technique of giving "scientific treatments" to customers by massaging on creams and lotions from a previous employer, Eleanor Adair...
...rapidly growing and robustly competitive business of auto and truck rentals, Avis, Inc., makes much of the fact that it is only a hard-trying No. 2. Obviously, No. 1 is the Hertz Corp., with a rental fleet now totaling 125,000 vehicles. Hertz's familiar yellow signs are out in 98 countries, most recently including Finland, New Guinea and the Dominican Republic. Revenues this year will top $300 million...